[Learning through play in the hospital: reality or illusion?] / Apprendre en s'amusant à l'hôpital : réalité ou illusion ?

Healthcare professionals have an obligation to maintain their knowledge at the highest level throughout their careers. To this end, the hospital team of a pharmacy for indoor use has developed an original and entertaining training course, mainly intended for nurses, on the subject of analgesics.

[COVID-19, drugs and hospital pharmacy]. / Évolution des traitements médicamenteux en cas de Covid-19.

Observation, interpretation, actions for improvement, questioning are all terms that echo the situation of caregivers since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in France at the beginning of 2020. All those involved in the healthcare chain have had to cope with the influx of patients and to show that they are capable of seeing their practices evolve on a daily basis. What was recommended a few weeks earlier could quickly become obsolete. It was necessary to be reactive and the question of drug treatments was at the heart of the concerns, requiring prescribers to keep themselves informed and pharmacists to be as mobilized as possible to respond to requests from the field as quickly as possible.

[Physicochemical incompatibilities of injectable drugs]. / Incompatibilités physicochimiques des médicaments injectables.

The physicochemical interactions of injectable drugs administered through a Y-site injection port are little known phenomena, poorly documented but very frequent. Physicochemical incompatibility is defined as a chemical reaction between two injectable drugs which come into contact with each other. This chemical reaction may be visible on a macroscopic level or completely invisible. The risks of these interactions are not harmless, ranging from inefficacy to the toxicity of the newly-formed compounds.

[Management of flows and supply shortages of health products in hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis]. / Gestion des flux et des tensions sur les produits de santé à l'hôpital en temps de Covid-19.

The hospital pharmacy is a medico-technical department within the hospital which has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. It has been a crucial element in the supply and flow management of medicines and medical devices. The shortage of medicines, and in particular of five molecules essential for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, has resulted in stocks being managed on a national level in order to address these new and unknown challenges. Adaptability will remain the key word to describe the action of hospital pharmacies during this crisis.